Japanese Industrialists Visit Willimantic

Title

Japanese Industrialists Visit Willimantic

Description

Japanese Industrialists stay in Willimantic to learn advancements in silk production. Impressed by the Morrison Company's silk production machinery, they purchase $40,000 of machinery to ship back to Japan.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 73.

Date

1888

Contributor

hall_tyler

Collection

Digital Windham

Citation

“Japanese Industrialists Visit Willimantic,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/804.